Why Does The Department Of Homeland Security Need 450 Million Hollow Point Bullets?

[krispos42]

11. Well, let's do some math

Each field agent is issued a gun that holds about 15 rounds of ammunition per magazine, and I would assume they carry one magazine in the gun and an extra 2 on their person someplace. So that's 45 rounds per agent, or thereabouts.

Plus, we want out agents to be well-trained, so we want them to put a couple of hundred rounds per month in training. Call that 2,400 rounds per year for 5 years, that's 12,000 rounds for training per agent.

450,000,000 ÷ 12,000 = 37,500 agents with enough ammunition for training. That doesn't seem unreasonable when you total up Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, and the Federal Protective Service.


Plus, the stuff lasts for decades. It's not like it expires and has to be thrown out.